BD-Basiliensis

tome 8 the Swiss account

série:	Polar/Erdman
éditeur:	Tor books
auteur:	Erdman Paul E.
classement:	carton 46
année:	1993
format:	broché
état:	TBE/N
valeur:	5 €
critère:	**
remarques:	English book novel about the neutrality of Switzerland during Second World War and its ambivalent role between Axis and Allies >> p. 9 the cooperation between the US OSS and the Swiss Secret Intelligence OSS = office of strategic services >> p. 13 the "chaibe Schwobe" (most of the German Swiss do not like very much the Germans, espc. in Basle) >> p. 22 das Boot ist voll = Swiss film about refugees during the 2nd WW >> p. 24 the origin of the BIS (bank for international settlement in Basle) >> p. 26 coffeeshop Frey and the former newspaper "Basler Nachrichten" >> p. 30 the Basler aristocratic families "the Daig" >> p. 33 the Swiss Intelligence Service and the code name "Rigi", colonel Masson of section 5 of the Swiss army >> p. 43 die rote Kapelle (Sovjet secret service in Switzerland) >> p. 56 the D bureau (for Deutschland) >> p. 61 the son of general Guisan, being on the board of a Swiss company exporting military barracks, possible invasion of Switzerland in 1943 >> p. 65 the meeting in Switzerland of general Schellenberg, head of German secret service and Himmler's deputy with colonel Masson >> p. 67 the NKGB being active in Switzerland during 2nd WW (was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence) >> p. 70 the Schützenhaus restaurant in Basle >> p. 79 the history of Schloss Benken, Roger Masson and Max Weibel, head of D bureau - the very close friendship between the two oldest democracies in the world: USA and Switzerland >> p. 89 the deal with Alan Dulles (representative of OSS in Switzerland) as suggested by the Germans to negotiate a pact between Germany and the USA against Sovietunion (but here Erdman has got off his shoes, see book les secrets d'une reddition by Alan Dulles 1970) >> p. 90 the Viking line = link between Swiss Intelligence Service and a member of Hitler's headquarters (whose name had never been really known) >> p. 104 the ultra capitalistic Swiss >> p. 119 the standard Gestapo practice used by Swiss police (e.g. in Geneva) >> p. 143 the Swiss mountain troops >> p. 146 the spy had displaced the diplomat >> p. 148 the Führer Hitler did not like very much the Swiss >> p. 150 colonel Masson, a friend of Germany ? a kind of pro-nazi like foreign minister Pilet >> p. 160 Hannelore and Marlene = Schellenberg's secretaries? >> p. 163 the beer "temperiert" = a vulgar custom practiced only by dull Swiss men (?) >> p. 166 the French-Swiss military agreement (discovered by the Germans in a wagon at Charity-sur-Loire) >> Basle would have been evacuated >> p. 197 the "word" of a German officer (during the fighting at Schloss Benken) >> p. 199 the gates of Basle: St. Johann Tor, St. Alban Tor, the Spalentor >> p. 219 the transport of the cask of "heavy" water" from Norway to Peenemünde >> p. 227 description of general Guisan's position as a Swiss general and head of state >> p. 230 meeting Schellenberg/Guisan (historically correct) at hotel Bären in Biglen/BE but a very secret meeting >> p. 234 Switzerland being the most valuable ally of nazi Germany >> p. 240/243 the gold affair Sweden = fellow neutral of Switzerland >>Y p. 263 explanation about the making of an atomic explosion with U 238 >> p. 267 the Basler Zolli (the jewel of Basle) >> p. 273 the Peenemünde secret base, mostly for V2 rockets >> p. 280 transit for transit >> p. 287 the Interhandel affair (settlement of an international dispute) >> p. 296 the ME 110 affair in Dübendorf (Swiss military airport) >> p. 305 the pressure on Switzerland by the USA for the nazi bank accounts after the war >> p. 307 blockade between Spain and Switzerland by the Allies >> p. 317 Swiss agents working for the Allies in Germany towards the end of the war >> quite an interesting book with some good documentation based on real facts - some events are very true, some are fictitious, esp. the meeting at Schloss Benken l - meetings with Schellenberg, in fact three meetings: Waldshut, Biglen and Arosa - the search for the German atomic bomb at Haigerloch in the black forest is partly true - some true (but not always) and interesting details about Switzerland during the 2nd world war, Erdman = a naughty friend of the Swiss who had a good link about swiss affairs during his business and pleasant (?) time in Switzerland bibliography - Bonjour Edgar, Geschichte der schweiz. Neutralität (1970) - Braunschweig Pierre, geheimer Draht nach Berlin (1989) >> about the Viking line - Casey William, the German atom bomb in "the secret war against Hitler" (1988) - Flicke, Spionagegruppe Rote Kapelle ( - Gautschi, Alan Dulles: the secret surrender (1966) >> about operation Sunrise - Gautschi, general Henri Guisan (1989) - Garlinski Jozef, the Swiss corridor (1981) >> about the Swiss Intelligence Service - Rings Werner, Raubgold aus Deutschland: die Goldscheibe (1985)
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